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TSD 2002 Detailed Program


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Overview
Date Time Action Room
Sunday, September 8, 2002 16:00 – 22:00 Registration Hall
Monday, September 9, 2002 8:00 – 9:00 Registration Hall
9:00 – 9:15 Opening Ceremony D2
9:15 – 9:45 Frederick Jelinek - invited speech
9:45 – 10:40 Ron Cole - invited speech
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break Hall
11:00 – 13:00 Plenary Session (4) D2
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 Poster Session (7) Hall
15:00 – 17:00 Parallel Sessions (8) D1,D2
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break Hall
17:30 – 19:00 Demonstration Session
19:00 – 23:00 Welcome Reception Faculty Courtyard
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
9:00 – 10:00 James Pustejovsky - invited speech D2
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break Hall
10:30 – 12:30 Plenary Session (4) D2
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 Poster Session (9) Hall
14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions (6) D1,D2
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break Hall
16:30 – 18:00 Parallel Sessions (6) D1,D2
18:00 – 19:00 Program Committee Meeting B011
19:00 – 22:00 Guided Tour to Brno
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
9:00 – 10:00 Misha Pavel - invited speech D2
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30 Parallel Sessions (8) D1,D2
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 24:00 Trip and Conference Dinner
Thursday, September 12, 2002
9:00 – 11:00 Parallel Sessions (8) D1,D2
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions (6) D1,D2
13:00 – 13:30 Closing Ceremony D2
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch Break



Monday, September 9, 2002
Time
9:15 Frederick Jelinek - Speed-up of CYK Algorithm for Lexicalized PCFGs
9:45 Ron Cole - Perceptive Animated Interfaces: The Next Generation of Interactive Learning Tools
11:00 Georg Stemmer and Stefan Steidl and Elmar Nöth and Heinrich Niemann and Anton Batliner:
Comparison and Combination of Confidence Measures
pp. 181–188
11:30 D.W. Oard and D. Demner-Fushman and J. Hajič and B. Ramabhadran and S. Gustman and W.J. Byrne and D. Soergel and B. Dorr and P. Resnik and M. Picheny:
Cross-Language Access to Recorded Speech in the MALACH Project
pp. 57–64
12:00 C.K. Yang and L.J.M. Rothkrantz:
Knowledge Based Speech Interfacing for Handhelds
pp. 405–412
12:30 Janez Žibert and France Mihelič and Nikola Pavešić:
Speech Features Extraction Using Cone-Shaped Kernel Distribution
pp. 245–252
Poster session
14:00 Tomaž Rotovnik and Mirjam Sepesy Maučec and Bogomir Horvat and Zdravko Kačič:
Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition of Slovenian Language Using Data-Driven Morphological Models
pp. 329–332
Andrej Žgank and Tomaž Rotovnik and Zdravko Kačič and Bogomir Horvat:
Uniform Speech Recognition Platform for Evaluation of New Algorithms
pp. 333–336
P. Matějka and P. Schwarz and M. Karafiát and J. Černocký:
Some Like It Gaussian ...
pp. 321–324
Zervas P. and Potamitis I. and Fakotakis N. and Kokkinakis G.:
On the First Greek-TTS Based on Festival Speech Synthesis
pp. 261–264
Robert Batůšek:
An Analysis of Limited Domains for Speech Synthesis
pp. 265–268
András Kocsor and Kornél Kovács:
Kernel Springy Discriminant Analysis and Its Application to a Phonological Awareness Teaching System
pp. 325–328
Ilyas Potamitis and Nikos Fakotakis and Nikos Liolios and George Kokkinakis:
Speech Enhancement Using Mixtures of Gaussians for Speech and Noise
pp. 337–340
Section Text Section Speech
15:00 Marek Trabalka and Mária Bieliková:
Using Salient Words to Perform Categorization of Web Sites
pp. 65–72
Dana Nejedlová:
Comparative Study on Bigram Language Models for Spoken Czech Recognition
pp. 197–204
15:30 Fatiha Sadat and Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura:
Exploiting Thesauri and Hierarchical Categories in Cross-Language Information Retrieval
pp. 139–146
Pascal Wiggers and Leon J. M. Rothkrantz:
Integration of Speech Recognition and Automatic Lip-Reading
pp. 205–212
16:00 Jan Žižka and Aleš Bourek:
Filtering of Large Numbers of Unstructured Text Documents by the Developed Tool TEA
pp. 99–106
Michal Prcín and Luděk Müller:
Heuristic and Statistical Methods for Speech/Non-Speech Detector Design
pp. 309–316
16:30 Rodolfo A. Pazos R. and Alexander Gelbukh and J. Javier González B. and Erika Alarcón R. and Alejandro Mendoza M. and A. Patricia Domínguez S.:
Spanish Natural Language Interface for a Relational Database Querying System
pp. 123–130
Gies Bouwman and Lou Boves:
Utterance Verification Based on the Likelihood Distance to Alternative Paths
pp. 213–220
Demonstration session
17:30
Agnieszka Mykowiecka:
A Large-Scale Corpus of Polish and Tools for its Annotation
Piotr Banski:
XML architecture for a modern corpus
Pavel Rychly:
Advance concordances with Bonito
Brian O'Donovan and Alexander Troussov:
IBM Dictionary and Linguistic Tools system Frost
Bronius Tamulynas:
Computer-based Translation from English to Lithuanian
Beate Dorow:
Visualisation Techniques for Analysing Meaning
Zhiping Zheng:
Deploying Web-based Question Answering System to Local Archive
Michael Bodasov:
Generator module for InBASE NL data base Interface system
Elena Boian:
Romanian words inflection
Demidova Valentina:
Hyphenation algorithm for Romanian language words
Styve Jaumotte:
Semantic Knowledge in an Information Retrieval System
Qian Hu:
The MITRE Audio Hot Spotting Prototype - Using Multiple Speech and Natural Language Processing Technologies
Antanas Lipeika:
ISOLATED WORD RECOGNITION AND VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE
Pekar Darko:
ALFANUM SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION
Petr Schwarz:
Keyword spotting system
Elena Karagjosova:
GoDiS - Issue-based dialogue management in a multi-domain, multi-language dialogue system



Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Time
9:00 James Pustejovsky - When Corpus meets Theory: Creating Lexical Semantic Databases
10:30 Josef Psutka and Pavel Ircing and Josef V. Psutka and Vlasta Radová and William J. Byrne and Jan Hajič and Samuel Gustman and Bhuvana Ramabhadran:
Automatic Transcription of Czech Language Oral History in the MALACH Project: Resources and Initial Experiments
pp. 253–260
11:00 Pavel Květoň and Karel Oliva:
Achieving an Almost Correct PoS-Tagged Corpus
pp. 19–26
11:30 Jan Nouza:
Strategies for Developing a Real-Time Continuous Speech Recognition System for Czech Language
pp. 189–196
12:00 Genevieve Baudoin and François Capman and Jan Černocký and Fadi El Chami and Maurice Charbit and Gérard Chollet and Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz:
Advances in Very Low Bit Rate Speech Coding Using Recognition and Synthesis Techniques
pp. 269–276
Poster session
13:30 Dita Bartůšková and Radek Sedláček:
Tools for Semi-Automatic Assignment of Czech Nouns to Declination Patterns
pp. 159–162
Robert Král:
Word Sense Discrimination for Czech
pp. 155–158
Michael V. Boldasov and Elena G. Sokolova and Michael G. Malkovsky:
User Query Understanding by the InBASE System as a Source for a Multilingual NL Generation Module
pp. 33–40
Goran Nenadić and Irena Spasić and Sophia Ananiadou:
Term Clustering Using a Corpus-Based Similarity Measure
pp. 151–154
Markéta Lopatková and Veronika Řezníčková and Zdeněk Žabokrtský:
Valency Lexicon for Czech: From Verbs to Nouns
pp. 147–150
Jan Nouza and Petr Kolář and Josef Chaloupka:
Voice Chat with a Virtual Character: The Good Soldier Švejk Case Project
pp. 445–448
I. Azzini and T. Giorgino and D. Falavigna and R. Gretter:
Application of Spoken Dialogue Technology in a Medical Domain
pp. 449–452
Pavel Cenek:
A Flexible Framework for Evaluation of New Algorithms for Dialogue Systems
pp. 437–440
César González Ferreras and David Escudero Mancebo and Valentín Cardenoso Payo:
From HTML to VoiceXML: A First Approach
pp. 441–444
Section Text Section Speech
14:30 Andrés Montoyo and Rafael Romero and Sonia Vázquez and Carmen Calle and Susana Soler:
The Role of WSD for Multilingual Natural Language Applications
pp. 41–48
Tomaž Šef and Maja Škrjanc and Matjaž Gams:
Automatic Lexical Stress Assignment of Unknown Words for Highly Inflected Slovenian Language
pp. 165–172
15:00 Armando Suárez and Manuel Palomar:
Word Sense vs. Word Domain Disambiguation: A Maximum Entropy Approach
pp. 131–137
Jindřich Matoušek and Daniel Tihelka and Josef Psutka and Jana Hesová:
German and Czech Speech Synthesis Using HMM-Based Speech Segment Database
pp. 173–180
15:30 Imad A. Al-Sughaiyer and Ibrahim A. Al-Kharashi:
Rule Parser for Arabic Stemmer
pp. 11–18
Milan Sečujski and Radovan Obradović and Darko Pekar and Ljubomir Jovanov and Vlado Delić:
AlfaNum System for Speech Synthesis in Serbian Language
pp. 237–244
Section Text Section Dialogue
16:30 Gábor Alberti and Helga M. Szabó:
Discourse-Semantic Analysis of Hungarian Sign Language
pp. 73–80
Marta Gatius and Horacio Rodríguez:
Natural Language Guided Dialogues for Accessing the Web
pp. 373–380
17:00 Sven Hartrumpf and Hermann Helbig:
The Generation and Use of Layer Information in Multilayered Extended Semantic Networks
pp. 89–98
Emilio Sanchis and Fernando García and Isabel Galiano and Encarna Segarra:
Applying Dialogue Constraints to the Understanding Process in a Dialogue System
pp. 389–395
17:30 Dominic Widdows and Scott Cederberg and Beate Dorow:
Visualisation Techniques for Analysing Meaning
pp. 107–114
Victoria Arranz and Núria Castell and Montserrat Civit:
Strategies to Overcome Problematic Input in a Spanish Dialogue System
pp. 421–428



Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Time Section Text Section Speech
9:00 Misha Pavel - Fusion-Based Robust Signal Processing by Humans and Machines Using High-Dimensional Representation
10:30 Jorge Grana and Miguel A. Alonso and Manuel Vilares:
A Common Solution for Tokenization and Part-of-Speech Tagging
pp. 3–10
Petr Motlíček and Lukáš Burget:
Efficient Noise Estimation and Its Application for Robust Speech Recognition
pp. 229–236
11:00 Antoine Rozenknop:
Gibbsian Context-Free Grammar for Parsing
pp. 49–56
Robert Hecht and Jürgen Riedler and Gerhard Backfried:
Fitting German into N-Gram Language Models
pp. 341–346
11:30 Tomáš Holan:
Dependency Analyser Configurable by Measures
pp. 81–88
Yassine Ben Ayed and Dominique Fohr and Jean Paul Haton and Gérard Chollet:
Keyword Spotting Using Support Vector Machines
pp. 285–292
12:00 Aleš Horák and Vladimír Kadlec and Pavel Smrž:
Enhancing Best Analysis Selection and Parser Comparison
pp. 461–466
Pascal Nocera and Georges Linares and Dominique Massonié and Loíc Lefort:
Phoneme Lattice Based A* Search Algorithm for Speech Recognition
pp. 300–308



Thursday, September 12, 2002
Time Section Dialogue Section Speech
9:00 Marion Mast and Thomas Ross and Henrik Schulz and Heli Harrikari:
Different Approaches to Build Multilingual Conversational Systems
pp. 413–420
Kris Demuynck and Tom Laureys:
A Comparison of Different Approaches to Automatic Speech Segmentation
pp. 277–284
9:30 Simon Dobrišek and Jerneja Gros and Boštjan Vesnicer and France Mihelič and Nikola Pavešić:
A Voice-Driven Web Browser for Blind People
pp. 453–459
Guido Aversano and Anna Esposito:
Automatic Parameter Estimation for a Context-Independent Speech Segmentation Algorithm
pp. 293–300
10:00 Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos and Francisco Casacuberta:
Evaluating a Probabilistic Dialogue Model for a Railway Information Task
pp. 381–388
Tomáš Bartoš and Luděk Müller:
Rejection Technique Based on the Mumble Model
pp. 221–228
10:30 Guy Camilleri:
Dialogue Systems and Planning
pp. 429–436
Marina Lublinskaya and Tatiana Sherstinova:
Audio Collections of Endangered Arctic Languages in the Russian Federation
pp. 347–353
Section Text Section Dialogue
11:30 Rei Oguro and Hiromi Sekiya and Yuhei Morooka and Kazuyuki Takagi and Kazuhiko Ozeki:
Evaluation of a Japanese Sentence Compression Method Based on Phrase Significance and Inter-Phrase Dependency
pp. 27–32
Manolis Maragoudakis and Aristomenis Thanopoulos and Nikos Fakotakis:
Statistical Decision Making from Text and Dialogue Corpora for Effective Plan Recognition
pp. 365–372
12:00 Liang Huang and Yinan Peng and Huan Wang and Zhenyu Wu:
Statistical Part-of-Speech Tagging for Classical Chinese
pp. 115–122
Anton Batliner and Viktor Zeissler and Elmar Nöth and Heinrich Niemann:
Prosodic Classification of Offtalk: First Experiments
pp. 357–364
12:30 Elena Karagjosova and Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová:
An Analysis of Conditional Responses in Dialogue
pp. 317–320
Nestor Garay-Vitoria and Julio Abascal and Luis Gardeazabal:
Evaluation of Prediction Methods Applied to an Inflected Language
pp. 397–403
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